The Harmful Effects of Riba on Human Society (Islamic Finance Series)
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
What this source says
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf — founder of Zaytuna College and one of the most influential Western Muslim scholars — explains, as part of an Islamic finance series, why riba is prohibited and the wider social and economic harms an interest-based system inflicts on human society.
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Provenance
- Channel
- Guidance Residential, LLC
- Transcript
- Auto-generated captions — read with that in mind
- School / basis
- Comparative
- Added
- 2026-06-19
- Trust
- A position recorded from a named, published source — reported accurately, not independently adjudicated.
Compiler’s note
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf (co-founder and president of Zaytuna College, Berkeley) was absent from the corpus — added as a primary-source video on the harms of an interest-based economy. Published on the OWN official channel of Guidance Residential, a major US Islamic home-finance provider, as part of their named 'Islamic Finance Series' (institutional source reinforcing the US edition and the site's home-finance focus), not an anonymous re-upload. videoId + channel verified live via YouTube oEmbed (title 'The Harmful Effects of Riba on Human Society - Shaykh Hamza Yusuf (Islamic Finance Series)', author_name 'Guidance Residential, LLC'). Anonymous re-uploads of other Hamza Yusuf riba talks (channels 'Dine Dino', 'Islam Rewards', 'inkofknowledge') were rejected per the named-scholar own-channel bar. Quotes not transcribed — verify on the video before citing verbatim.
Topics
ribainterestislamic-financeeconomicssociety
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